Building Bridges to Understanding

Let’s get started…..
Stories from the Flat Classroom…..

OPEN this WIKI:
• globalcollaboration.flatclassroomproject.org
• Follow link to Design Global Collaboration

Julie Lindsay
Director and Co-Founder, Flat Classroom
Global Educator, Innovator, Leader

Resources:
http://learningconfluence.com
http://123elearning.blogspot.com
Get connected:
http://flatclassrooms.ning.com
Email – lindsay.julie@gmail.com

AGENDA
• PART A
– Getting started with Global Projects
• PART B
– Global Project Pedagogy and Curriculum Design
– 7 Steps to Flatten your Classroom
• PART C
– Designing, Pitching and Evaluating Global
Projects

Glocalization: Thinking globally acting locally

Thomas Friedman
The World is Flat
"The more you have a
culture that naturally
glocalizes - that is, the
more your own culture
easily absorbs foreign
ideas and best practices
and melds those with its
own traditions - the
greater advantage you will
have in a flat world."

PART 1

GETTING STARTED WITH GLOBAL
PROJECTS

Discuss!
What is „collaboration‟?

What is „global collaboration‟?

What conditions must exist to
support global collaboration in
learning?

What is ‘Global Collaboration’?

Not an An approach
‘add on’ to pedagogy

Evolution of the Traditional
Classroom
Social-educational
networking

Learning
Peer-to- is Social
peer New
learning media

Why Global Collaboration?
Global competency

International mindedness

Cultural awareness

Glocalisation!

Defining the Global
Collaborative Classroom
A classroom that is:
• connected
• engages with multiple
audiences
• engages with diverse
resources, and tools
• creates
authentic, collaborativ
e learning outcomes.

Evolution of Global
Collaboration in Education

Global
Collaboration
Global 3.0
Collaboration
Global 2.0
Collaboration
1.0

Challenges of Embedding
Global Collaboration
Having Going
realistic Beyond the
expectations ‘Wow’

Shifting Engaging
traditional learners and
pedagogies leaders

The Evolution of Global Collaboration in
Education
P7

Wiki-centric Global Collaboration using Web 2.0 Tools
Authentic Problem Solving using Real-World Topics
‘Flat’ learning – teacher to student, student to student

Flat Classroom Mini Conference 2010
India

Discuss!
What makes a successful global
collaborative project?

Why are some projects more
successful than others?

What are the characteristics of an
engaged teacher and classroom in
a global project?

Flat Classroom™
Global Projects
Flat Classroom® Project @flatclassroom

Digiteen™ Project @digiteen

‘A Week in the Life…’ Project Gr3-5 @flatclassroom

@netgened
NetGenEd™ Project

@eracismproject
Eracism™ Project
@flatclassroom
K-2 Project Building Bridges to Tomorrow
@flatclasskids

‘A Week in the Life…’
A Flat Classroom® Project for Elementary School students
Grades 3-5, age 8-10

Project Tools - Teachers
• Flat Classrooms Ning – Our ‘social’ educational
network
– Join the AWL group
– ‘Handhake’ – introductions
– Share ideas, converse, solve problems
• Google Group
– For emails and more private communication as needed
• Google docs
– Teacher admin doc
– Team Grids – student teams and class information

Essential Questions Which Will Be
Answered as part of the project
• What are the similarities and differences
among children around the world?
• How can we connect with each other through
our commonalities?
• How does your geography where you live
impact your topic?

1. Do some research on a week in the
life of children in your school around
these NINE topics:
• School time
• Languages
• Clothing
• Housing
• Transportation
• Leisure time
• Holidays
• Celebration
• Environment

2. Collect multimedia and share with
team members

• Multimedia choices:
video, audio, slideshow, cartoons, etc.
• Share multimedia online via team wiki pages
• Discuss differences and similarities between
multimedia

3. Complete a final project
demonstrating your information to
the rest of the group.
• Each classroom will be responsible to
assemble a number of team projects
• Upload finished projects to the wiki
• View all the group projects and compare and
contrast the results.

Project Tools - Students
• Edmodo – Our ‘social’ educational network
– Students in teams
• Wikispaces - Our collaborative working area
– Co-create wiki pages with material share for each
topic

Workflow AWL 12-2 – Part 1
Classroom Handshake
Class Handshake, teachers’
Edmodo Join the AWL 12-2,
comment, interact

Team Formation
In Teams, individual
Edmodo Organize by Teams
handshake

Multimedia Collection
Wiki, Edmodo Sharing raw multimedia

Student TEAMS
Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5 Team 6

School Time 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F

Languages 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F
Clothing 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
Housing
Team Topics

4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F

FLAT CLASSROOM TEAMS 2009
Transportation 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F

Leisure Time 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F
Food 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F
Celebrations 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E 8F
Environment 9A 9B 9C 9D 9E 9F

„A Week in the Life...‟ Team Grid

Project Workflow:
AWL 02 - September-December
• Application Deadline: September 1
• Online Teacher Information Meeting: before
September 15
• Classroom and Student Handshake: September 15-30
• Team Formation and Project Discussions: October 1-30
• Multimedia Collection and Sharing: November 1-15
• Media Collation and Product Development: November
15-30
• Celebration, Summits and Reflections: November 30-
December 15

Please join our
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It’s not too late. Possible layouts, but I can
use anything. I can turn
anything into a JPEG.

Sonja Dasopatis, captions
Patty Hoyt, California below each picture
Anne Mirtschin plus page
of captions

The Flat Classroom Project
(under the microscope)

Flat Classroom Project Design Chart
for Wiki Collaboration

Flat Classroom Multimedia
Product: Student Video

Agreeing on core and
optional outcomes with
stakeholders p 45-47

http://k2-12-2.flatclassroomproject.org/

BUILDING BRIDGES TO TOMORROW

AIM: TO BUILD UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE BEYOND
THE IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT AND ALSO BUILD
COMMUNITY THROUGH REGULAR CONNECTION
AND COLLABORATION AND BY SHARING BETWEEN
CLASSROOMS.

OUR CHALLENGE:

TO CONNECT CLASSROOMS AROUND THE
WORLD IN MEANINGFUL DISCUSSIONS AND
COLLABORATIONS AND TO SHOW THAT CO-
CREATION OF IDEAS AND PRODUCTS IS
POSSIBLE AT THIS LEVEL OF EDUCATION

WHY ARE YOU HERE?
 You believe global collaboration has a place in your
classroom
 You want to improve digital citizenship and cultural
understanding
 You want to foster global competency amongst
students and teachers
 You have some digital fluency and access to digital
tools
 You want to use tools and skills in meaningful ways
to connect with others and learn together

CREATING THE HANDSHAKE
 Handshake phase
 In your groups of 5-6 reach out and „shake hands‟ over
the next week.
 Share this handshake experience with the rest of us via
the wiki and Ning
 Tools for the handshake?
 You decide!
 Skype?
 Google Earth?
 Another Web 2.0 multimedia tool?
 Share ideas and surprise us

Project Tools - Teachers
• Flat Classrooms Ning – Our ‘social’ educational
network
– Join the K-2 Building Bridges group
• Google Group
– For emails and more private communication as
needed
• Google docs
– Teacher admin doc

Essential Questions Which Will Be
Answered as part of the project
• Can very young students effectively
connect, communicate, and collaborate in a
global project?
• What does this look like?
• What products can students in mixed
classroom teams co-create?
• What activities and structure can we design
and implement to scaffold this collaboration?

1. There are 7 possible topics:

1. How We Play,
2. Celebrating Together,
3. Going to School,
4. Part of a Family,
5. Making a Meal,
6. Sharing Stories,
7. The View from the Window
(landscape, geography) – Everyone does this

PROPOSED OUTCOMES
 Co-created product from mixed classrooms
 E-Book creation - to be shared via a variety
of devices
 Multimedia product eg
Voicethread, Glogster (Gr 3-5 project use
these)
 Parent/school presentation - school
assembly? Parent conference session?
Open classroom?

Workflow K-2 12-2
Classroom Handshake

Teacher Ning Join the K-2 12-2 Wiki Class Handshakes

Team Formation
Multimedia and Individual Select Tools, Plan
Organize Topics
handshakes collaboration

Multimedia Collection
Organising into
Wiki Sharing raw multimedia
communication format

Project Workflow:
K-2 12-2 October-December
• Application Deadline: September 15
• Online Teacher Information Meeting: before October 1
• Classroom Handshake and Kick-off: October 1-15
• Team Formation and Project Discussions: October 15-
November 1
• Projects to be started by November 1
• Multimedia Collection and Sharing: November 1-15
• Product Development and Co-Creation: November 15-
30
• Celebration, Summits and Reflections: November 30-
December 15

What is the Digiteen Project?
There are 2 parts to this project for students who
are 13 years and older:
• Global collaboration on research and sharing
resources via a wiki, including ongoing discussion
and interaction between global classrooms via the
wiki and Ning
• A school-based local project that takes the new
knowledge about Digital Citizenship and
implements something within the school
community that will raise awareness and make a
difference

Digiteen Project Features
• Continue with the rigorous research and wiki-
co-creation
• Continue with mature discussion
opportunities on the Ning, sharing ideas and
practices to do with digital citizenship
• School-based action project

Workflow Digiteen/Digikid 12-2 Pt 1
Classroom Handshake
Class Handshake, teachers’
Digikid = Edmodo Digiteen = Ning
comment, interact

Team Formation
In Teams, individual
Edmodo/Ning Wiki/Team Grid
handshake

Research
Sharing raw
Wiki, Edmodo Discussions
multimedia/wiki editing

Project Matrix (11x5) = 55 groups
Areas of Awareness/Core 1. Technical 2. Individual 3. Social 4. Cultural 5. Global
Access & Awareness Awareness Awareness Awareness
Competency Awareness
A1 Safety 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E
A2 Privacy 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E
A3 Copyright, fair use & legal 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E
compliance
B Etiquette & Respect 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E
C1 Habits of learning and 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E
managing online activity:
Health
Social media
Virtual worlds
D Literacy & fluency 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E
Digital Citizenship 9A 9B 9C 9D 9E
Perspectives: Parents &
Community

PART 2

GLOBAL PROJECT PEDAGOGY AND
CURRICULUM DESIGN

7 Steps to Flatten Your
Classroom
1.CONNECT
2.COMMUNICATE
3.CITIZENSHIP
4.CONTRIBUTE &
COLLABORATE
5.CHOICE
6.CREATE
7.CELEBRATE

What is a PLN?
An extended
community of
people that you A personally
can interact chosen
with regularly collection of
resources you
can go to when
you want to
learn
something
Photo credit: http://flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2060090675/

Foster conversation and
social learning through
connectivity and interactivity

Ongoing professional
development

Make important professional
connections globally

Encourages a global
perspective

Acts as a lifeline for quick
fixes

Scaffolds educators sharing,
communicating and
collaborating
Caveat: A network is only as valuable and
useful as what participants contribute
Photo credit: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2112632514&size=m

©Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay

Step 1: Connect
“Pull is the ability to
attract people and
resources to you that
are relevant and
valuable, even if you
were not even aware
before that they
existed.”
Brown, J. S., Davidson, L., & Hagel III, J.
(2010). The Power of Pull (Kindle Edition ed.).
USA: Basic Books. Loc. 172-73, 183-85.

7 Pull Technologies
1. RSS Reader
2. Tablet-Sized Devices
3. Handheld Devices
4. Social Bookmarking
5. Joining Online Conversations
6. Networking Organizations
7. Location Based Apps

Pull Learning to help you easily embed learning in your weekly schedule

Creating a
Connection
Strategy
p 51- 54

Discuss!

What technologies do you use
to connect with your PLN?
• RSS
• Social bookmarking
• Blog
• Twitter
• Other?

Traditional Flat Classroom
Classroom
Separated by Unified by the
LOCATION INTERNET
Separated by TIME Unified by
ASYNCHRONOUS
communications
tools

Discuss!
What is YOUR definition of
digital citizenship?

Digital Citizenship
“…the norms of behavior with
regard to technology use”
Ribble and Bailey

Citizenship OMG I JUST
SAW THE
Sorry for HISTORY ON
accusing THE
you, the WIKI..Really
history sorry for any
makes it problems
look like you

BTW I
didn‟t
delete
Why did you anything
delete stuff off
the wiki?

Step 3: Citizenship

Technology Access

Map of world‟s Facebook connections Source: Facebook December 2010

Technical Awareness

You can run into the 21st
Century when you know
how to use 21st century
tools.

Individual Awareness

“To blindly accept a
website‟s profile settings is
to hand over your digital
destiny.”

Social Awareness
“The novelty and addictiveness of technology
will harm our relationships and productivity
unless we take control.”

Cultural Awareness
 Everyone is not just like me.
 Everyone is like me in some ways.

Contribute &
Step #4

Collaborate

“The weakness is that if there is a problem, and you e-mail
them, they can just ignore the email, or they can just do their own
thing and not listen to what you ask of them.”
Student in the Horizon Project

Discuss!
What is „co-creation‟?

Can you have co-creation
without the 3 R‟s of global
collaboration?

21st Century
Learning
Objectives

To be able to
CREATE

Revised 2001 by Lorin Anderson

Why Revise?
……to account for the new
behaviours emerging as
technology advances and
becomes more ubiquitous.
Blooms Digital Taxonomy
Andrew Churches
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+
Digital+Taxonomy

Choices: Align with Learning Styles

Higher Order Thinking

Creation

Co-
creation

Wikis •Reflecting •Wiki Composition
•Opinion •Writing
•Reporting on •Research
group issues
•Discussion mgt •Programming
•Cell phone enabled •Organizing
Blogging or pics, twitter •Widget finding
•Live streaming •Mentoring

•Outdoor dig storytlng
•Record audio files or photography
•Audacity editor •Maps
•VoiceThread •Environmental
•Animoto research
•Camera
•Acting •Photography
•Presenting •Graphic Design
•(Get on film) •“looks”

Social Network
(Ning) •Reflections
•Blogging
•Reading &
•Forums
opinion
•Debates
•Forums
•Cell phone enabled •Administration
Blogging or pics •Organizing Site
•Discussion facilitators •Linking sharer

•Photography
•Record audio files •Outdoor video
•Audacity editor •Gcast remotely
•VoiceThread •“Roving” reporter
•Animoto •Google Earth
•Photography
•Acting •Camera Op
•Presenting •VoiceThread
•(Get on film) •Animoto

Discuss!
What are the reasons for giving
students choice in their
learning?
What are the characteristics of
teachers in the choice-rich
environment?

Project Celebration: Student Summit
“In addition to the in-class
required assessment for
a global project, it is
advised that students
are able to celebrate and
reflect with others from
the project, including
teachers and students. ”

Celebrate
New friends

New achievements

A sense of accomplishment

Enhanced cultural understanding

Making the world a better place

LACHSA Summit

http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/Summits

Vienna International School Summit

Presenter
Vicki Davis
Westwood Schools
http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/Summits

Why Celebrate?
Step 7: Celebrate
• Ongoing Improvement – Kaizen
• Retrospection
• Closure
• Sense of accomplishment
• Provide feedback
• Cement cooperative learning experiences
A thought about Retrospection…….
• It would be sad to retire and have it said, “she didn‟t
teach 30 years, she taught 1 year 30 times.”

PART 3

DESIGNING, PITCHING AND
EVALUATING GLOBAL PROJECTS

What are the
CHARACTERISTICS of a GOOD
Global Project?

Brain Storm

What is an Effective Global
Collaborative Project?
An educational project that flattens or joins
classrooms and people from geographically
dispersed places within a technology
infrastructure built for a common curricular
purpose.

Interactions foster cultural understanding and
global awareness in the process of learning.

Local identity is maintained and celebrated.

Getting Started with Global Projects
Find like-minded educators

Design Outcomes

Select Tools

Manage for Success

Project Management
Shared expectations

Support for Success

Reflect and Redesign

Am I willing to redesign my
curriculum to embed a global
project into what my class does?
“Designing a global
collaborative experience
involves transcending the
obvious real time
linkup, fostering higher order
thinking and providing
opportunities for cultural
understanding while usually
making a product that impacts
others in a positive way. ”

Discuss!
What are the CHARACTERISTICS
of a GOOD Global Project?
How can we design learning experiences that
embrace global education as well as enforce rigor
and relevance.....or are these the same?

How important is collaboration and co-creation in
global project design? Does this importance differ
depending on the age of the participants?

How do I define criteria for
evaluating global projects?

Where do I find global
partners?

How to find Project
Partners? 3. Where?
Where?
#1 Social Networks
Description URL
Global collaborative project ideas globalcollaborations.wikispaces.com/
inspired by the Learning 2.0
educational network

Flat Classroom Educator Network flatclassrooms.ning.com
Global Education Conference globaleducationconference.com/

Global Classrooms globalclassroom2011-12.wikispaces.com/

Taking IT Global www.tigweb.org/tiged/

How to find Project
Partners? 3. Where?
Where?
#2 Established Networks
Location URL
iEarn http://www.iearn.org/
ePals http://www.epals.com/
Skype Education http://education.skype.com/
Flat Classroom Projects http://www.flatclassroomproject.net
eTwinning (europe http://www.etwinning.net
online)

How to find Project
Partners? 3. Where?
Where?
#3 Hashtags
Location URL
#flatclass Conversations around the principles of
merging classrooms and co-creating
together
#globaled Global education conversations
#globalclassroom Conversations around global classroom
conversations
#edchat Lots of conversations happen on this
hashtag in education

How to find Project
Partners? 3. Where?
Where?
#4 Conferences
Location URL
K12 Online Conference http://k12onlineconference.org/
(online only) - free
Global Education http://www.globaleducationconference.co
Conference (online only) m/
– free
ISTE ($) http://www.iste.org
Flat Classroom http://www.flatclassroomconference.com
Conferences (Free for
virtual $ for f2f)
Lots of conferences by Look for them!
curriculum area

Where?

Explore Global Project
Sources………
globalcollaboration.flatclassroomproject.org

Discuss!
How can we design learning
experiences that embrace
global education as well as
enforce rigor and
relevance?
Are these the same?

Flat Classroom ®

Global Projects
Flat Classroom® Project P10-11*
@flatclassroom

Digiteen™ Project P11-12
@digiteen

‘A Week in the Life…’ Project Gr3-5 P13-14
@flatclassroom

NetGenEd™ Project P12-13
@netgened

Eracism™ Project
P13
@eracismproject

Incubator Program
NEW!
@flatclassroom

K-2 Project Building Bridges to Tomorrow
NEW!
@flatclasskids
*See the frameworks for each model on referenced page numbers.

Visit our
Flat Classrooms Website!
(Links to Projects)

Join our Ning!

Flat Classroom ®

Book!
‘Flattening
Classrooms, Engag
ing Minds: Move to
Global Collaboration One
Step at a Time”

flatclassroombook.com

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